The balance sheet of 50 years of development aidOver the past 50 years the West has invested over 3000 billion euro in development aid and already tackled many problems. Now more and more countries and organisations present themselves on the development aid scene, including China, India, and...

<span><span>The research described in this book suggests that a properly designed and sufficiently massive economic development assistance project-a Global Marshall Plan-could tremendously reduce the economic gap between the richest and poorest nations within a 50-year planning period.</span></span>

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Projects and Policies, Politics and Ethnicities / Ronald J. Herring and Milton J. Esman -- 2. The World Bank and Displacement: The Challenge of Heterogeneity / Daniel R. Gibson -- 3. USAID and Ethnic Conflict: An Epiphany? / Heather S. McHugh -- 4. Foreign Aid...

Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1: Development and Peasants' Associations in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 2: The ESA Experience-Part 1 -- 3: The ESA Experience-Part 2 -- 4: Decentralization and Organizations in West Africa -- 5: Farmers'...

Every day, we are barraged by statistics, images, and emotional messages that present poverty as a problem to be quantified, managed, and solved. Global generations present the poor as a heterogeneous group and stress globalized solutions to the problem of poverty. Governing the Poor exposes the...

This report evaluates the outcomes of World Bank Group support to Afghanistan from 2002-11. Despite extremely difficult security conditions, which deteriorated markedly after 2006, the World Bank Group has commendably established and sustained a large program of support to the country. The key...

Energy subsidies have wide-ranging economic consequences. Although they are aimed at protecting consumers, subsidies aggravate fiscal imbalances, crowd out priority public spending, and depress private investment, including in the energy sector. Subsidies also distort resource allocation by...

This paper uses a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, distributional and revenue implications of rice tariffs and targeted transfers in Madagascar, especially in the context of identifying their respective roles for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to...

Foreign aid flows to poor, aid-dependent economies are highly volatile and pro-cyclical. Shortfalls in aid coincide with shortfalls in GDP and government revenues. This increases the consumption volatility in aid dependent countries, thereby causing substantial welfare losses. This paper finds...